3rd International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

Research Article

A practical approach to QoS routing for wireless networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2005.6,
        author={T.  Tung and Zhanfeng   Jia and J.  Walrand },
        title={A practical approach to QoS routing for wireless networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WIOPT},
        year={2005},
        month={4},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2005.6}
    }
    
  • T. Tung
    Zhanfeng Jia
    J. Walrand
    Year: 2005
    A practical approach to QoS routing for wireless networks
    WIOPT
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2005.6
T. Tung1, Zhanfeng Jia1, J. Walrand 1
  • 1: Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Abstract

We study QoS routing in wireless networks. We impose a structure on the network to combat the far-reaching effects of interference. We observe that there is little difference between routes through shared interference domains; instead the choices exist between routes through different domains. Based on this observation, we suggest partitioning the network into non-overlapping clusters where each cluster represents an interference domain. Routing algorithms operate over the cluster-level topology and use shortest paths within the clusters. Clustering decouples the constraints allowing for estimates of the available capacity within a cluster via local measurements. We present a routing algorithm that chooses amongst cluster-level paths to accommodate a flow with certain QoS requirements. An admission control policy checks the feasibility of the suggested route and refines our estimates of available capacity.